Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

2010-05-14 Thread Mike Prager
Bill, Thanks. The problem is common but not consistent on update. I'll wait a few days for packages to be updated at CRAN, then try it. Mike On Wed, 12 May 2010 08:49:42 -0700, "William Dunlap" wrote: > If you have the time and can consistently reproduce >this problem you might try using S

Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

2010-05-12 Thread Mike Prager
Shortened a bit further. Answers to queries are at the end. MHP Duncan Murdoch wrote on 5/11/2010 7:03 PM: On 11/05/2010 6:21 PM, Mike Prager wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:05:45 -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote: I'd appreciate it if you could check whether the problems remain in R-

Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

2010-05-11 Thread Mike Prager
On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:05:45 -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >I'd appreciate it if you could check whether the problems remain in >R-devel, revision 51980 or later. (A build of this revision should be >on CRAN by tomorrow, at >http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rdevel.html .) > Thanks fo

Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

2010-05-10 Thread Mike Prager
Bill, Not in my case. The Indexing Service is disabled on my PC. MHP William Dunlap wrote on 5/10/2010 10:42 AM: Someone once suggested this error happened was due to the Windows 'Indexing Service' (sp?) delaying the commital of a request to rename a directory (so a subsequent request to use

Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

2010-05-10 Thread Mike Prager
[New material at end] Duncan Murdoch wrote on 5/10/2010 9:33 AM: On 10/05/2010 8:28 AM, Mike Prager wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2010 06:33:54 -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >Mike Prager wrote: >> Windows XP. I have just updated to R 2.11.0 and then run >> update.packages. In the se

Re: [Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

2010-05-10 Thread Mike Prager
On Mon, 10 May 2010 06:33:54 -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >Mike Prager wrote: >> Windows XP. I have just updated to R 2.11.0 and then run >> update.packages. In the series of updates, a few will succeed, then I >> get a failure like >> >> >> package '

[Rd] update.packages fails with directory not found

2010-05-10 Thread Mike Prager
ackage 'PBSmodelling' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Error in normalizePath(path) : path[1]="c:\Program Files\R\Library/PBSmodelling": The system cannot find the file specified Indeed, the path is missing, though it was there when I issued the update.package

Re: [Rd] gfortran optimization problems

2008-11-03 Thread Mike Prager
such sometime errors are classic symptoms of access violations in Fortran, such as accessing a variable whose value has not been set, exceeding array bounds, or something similar. The usual suggestion is to recompile the Fortran with ALL error-checking options turned on and see if such a bug tu

Re: [Rd] savePlot() no longer automatically adds an extension to the filename.

2008-06-03 Thread Mike Prager
the record. . . This change broke a *lot* of my code, including code used by others. Windows depends on file extensions. Fortunately, fixes using getRversion are not too difficult. -- Mike Prager, NOAA, Beaufort, NC * Opinions expressed are personal and not represented otherwise. * Any use

Re: [Rd] Request: Documentation of formulae

2008-06-03 Thread Mike Prager
erization as a competent R user. I may be that, or nearly so, but time and other resources don't allow me to contribute changes now. Perhaps in future I will be in a better position to do so. With appreciation for R and R-Core, Mike -- Mike Prager, NOAA, Beaufort, NC * Opinions expressed

Re: [Rd] Request: Documentation of formulae

2008-06-02 Thread Mike Prager
Mike Prager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was at a loss to understand the use of "/" until I looked in > "An Introduction [!] to R," where I found the explanation. > > My request is that more complete material on model formulae be > lifted from "

[Rd] Request: Documentation of formulae

2008-05-30 Thread Mike Prager
ot;model formulae". Looking to print, neither the section on "model formula" on p.56 of MASS nor the section surrounding the above example explains the notation, nor could I find it in Dalgaard's book, nor in Maindonald and Braun. This seems too nice a feature to keep hidden in

[Rd] Documentation: pls add xref from "sum" to "rowSums" (PR#11145)

2008-04-11 Thread mike . prager
Full_Name: Mike.Prager Version: 2.6.2 OS: Windows XP Prof + SP2 Submission from: (NULL) (192.154.40.252) Please add a cross-reference in R help files from "sum" to "rowSums" and also from "mean" to "rowMeans". Reasons: (1) New users may not be aware of rowSums, etc., and the simple functions wil

Re: [Rd] Help with "row.names = as.integer(c(NA, 5))" in file from dput

2007-02-28 Thread Mike Prager
want to ensure the widest possible compatibility for the way For2R is writing data in emulation of dput(). --Mike Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Prager wrote: > > I am trying to understand why syntax used by dput() to write > > rownames is valid (say, when re

[Rd] Help with "row.names = as.integer(c(NA, 5))" in file from dput

2007-02-28 Thread Mike Prager
sn't work: > row.names(fred) <- as.integer(c(NA,5)) Error in `row.names<-.data.frame`(`*tmp*`, value = c(NA, 5)) : invalid 'row.names' length Is there any reason why the expression c(NA,5) is better here than the more natural 1:5 here? I will appreciate help

[Rd] Entry for "sub"

2006-12-05 Thread Mike Prager
r the record, the major R reference books I have (Verani, V&R 4, Maindonald & Braun, S Prog) are rather thin on index entries under "character" or "string". I realize that if I already knew the answer, I could have found it, easily, but I didn't, and it was not easy. T

Re: [Rd] f2c to achieve reentrancy in odesolve?

2006-11-24 Thread Mike Prager
everal members of the standards committee. I can't think of a better place to get advice on such a question. Mike -- Mike Prager, NOAA, Beaufort, NC * Opinions expressed are personal and not represented otherwise. * Any use of tradenames does not constitute a NOAA endorsement. __

[Rd] (PR#8502) comment

2006-01-18 Thread Mike . Prager
In my example, I should have included the defaults to the wrapper function in its definition, rather than in the call to postscript(). That of course does NOT affect the validity of my bug report nor the ability of my example to demonstrate it. MHP

[Rd] Suboptimal EPS output (PR#8502)

2006-01-18 Thread mike . prager
Full_Name: Mike Prager Version: 2.2.1 OS: Windows XP with SP2 Submission from: (NULL) (205.156.36.17) When several EPS files are made with one invocation of postscript(), only the first displays correctly in gsview. Examination of the generated eps files with a diff utility reveals that